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The performance of sorption-based cryocoolers can, in various cases, benefit from attaining a low thermal gradient in the sorbent. The design and fabrication of a sorption compressor with a low thermal gradient design is presented here. The possibility of modelling this compressor with a uniform temperature in the adsorbent is validated with both thermal modelling and experiments and additional pressure validation. Both validation experiments show that in the operating region of the compressor the uniform temperature assumption in the adsorbent is justified. Additionally, an outlook to the operation of this compressor operating with single gases and mixtures is given.
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Tolboom, A.H., Holland, H.J., Vermeer, C.H., Brake, H.J.M.t. (2023). Low Thermal Gradient Sorption Compressor Design. In: Qiu, L., Wang, K., Ma, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 28th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2022. ICEC28-ICMC 2022. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China, vol 70. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6128-3_87
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